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>How do I pass a sort key to a stylesheet? > > Here's my stylesheet -- > > <xsl:apply-templates select="item"> > <xsl:sort select="{$key}" > > Using Saxon, I get the error "Invalid character ({) in > expression {$key}". > I think the syntax is right because I have no problem with > the sortorder parameter. The order parameter is an attribute value template but the select attribute (like all other attributes whose value is an expression) isn't. You can't use the "{}" notation except in an attribute that's explicitly an AVT. There's no direct way of achieving what you want in XSLT. The only ways to do it are (a) to generate a stylesheet on the fly and execute that, or (b) to write an extension function. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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